Reminiscences of Katherine Brownell Oettinger : oral history, 1983.

Biographical Note

Social worker, government official; interviewee married Malcolm H. Oettinger, Sr.

Scope and Contents

Family background, childhood and education; early professional practice, activities in field of mental health; marriage and family; community activities, Works Progress Administration Nursery Schools; care of children in wartime, child guidance clinics; National Mental Health Act of 1946; Pennsylvania Bureau of Mental Health, 1950-54; Dean, Boston University School of Social Work, 1954-57; Chief, United States Children's Bureau, 1957-68: relations with administrative staff, six Health, Education, and Welfare secretaries, Congress, four presidential transitions, commissioners, technical personnel; 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth; Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1968-69; consultant to international organizations.

Subjects

• Child mental health services.
• Government executives--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Mental health.
• Oettinger, Katherine Brownell, 1903-1997.
• Oral histories.
• Parker, Jacqueline K., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Social service.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States--Public welfare--20th century.
• United States. Children's Bureau.
• United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
• Women in public life--Interviews.

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